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Clarity comments on Open Thread August 31 - September 6 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Clarity 03 September 2015 01:50:36PM 1 point [-]

I bought a $200 prepaid debit card to precommit to getting a beeminder account that won't fuck up my bank balance. I plan to use it to give up pornography and excessive masturbation (<or=1 a week is my goal). However, $200 doesn't have a lot of marginal value to me. I'm thinking of exploiting my irrationality and warm fuzzies by precommiting to donate it to a warm fuzzies charity, or maybe I'll put the money towards potential dates so I can get a girlfriend as substitute if I'm successful in nofapping or watching porn. Ideally there would be a system whereby I could donate to people who would be incentivised to help me stay on the yellow road, at the end of passing the Beeminder test. I hope beeminder will let me do that. Any tips or comments? I've never done beeminder before.

Comment author: Dorikka 03 September 2015 04:00:04PM 2 points [-]

I am curious about your terminal goal here.

Comment author: btrettel 03 September 2015 08:54:20PM *  0 points [-]

I'm confused. Do you want to use the $200 to pay people, charities, or a dating fund when you derail? Beeminder does not allow that directly, but you are free to do additional things when you derail if you want. However, Beeminder does have "supporters", who will get an email when you derail, and you could use this to do something similar (like get them to bug you to pay them).

Comment author: Clarity 12 September 2015 06:23:16AM 0 points [-]

Yes, either, and, or.